He was born on February 1, 1902, the son of James Nathaniel Hughes and Carrie Langston Hughes. His father abandoned his wife and went to Cuba and then to Mexico due to the prevailing racism in the United States. The legends that his grandmother told had a great impact on him. Through them he discovered the African American oral tradition that made him proud of his race. He spent most of his childhood in Lawrence, Kansas, and after his grandmother died he lived with family friends, James and Mary Reed, for two years. It can be seen that his childhood was not entirely happy, but this instability greatly influenced the creation of the poet he became.

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He was born on February 1, 1902, the son of James Nathaniel Hughes and Carrie Langston Hughes. His father abandoned his wife and went to Cuba and then to Mexico due to the prevailing racism in the United States. The legends that his grandmother told had a great impact on him. Through them he discovered the African American oral tradition that made him proud of his race. He spent most of his childhood in Lawrence, Kansas, and after his grandmother died he lived with family friends, James and Mary Reed, for two years. It can be seen that his childhood was not entirely happy, but this instability greatly influenced the creation of the poet he became.

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American lawyer and politician, 44th President of the United States (2009-2017). When Barack Obama prevailed in the presidential elections on November 4, 2008, there was unanimity in affirming that no other presidential replacement had generated so much expectation and hope since the days of John Kennedy. At that time, the assessment that he would deserve his mandate was still unknown, Barack Obama inescapably went down in the annals of American politics as the first black president.

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Michelle Obama studied sociology and African American studies at Princeton University in New Jersey before attending Harvard Law School. She worked at the Sidley Austin Law Firm, where she specialized in intellectual property law. She there she met Barack Obama in 1989, whom she married in 1992 and with whom she had two daughters. In 1991 she worked as an assistant to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. From 1992 to 1993, she Michelle was assistant commissioner of the Chicago Department of Planning and Development. She later worked in non-profit organizations and was Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago and Vice President of Community and External Affairs for the Medical Center at the same university.

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Ed Dwight is an American sculptor, author, and former test pilot. He is the first African American to enter the Air Force training program from which NASA selected astronauts. Controversially, he was not selected to officially join NASA.

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Yuji Ichioka was an American historian and civil rights activist best known for his work in ethnic studies, particularly Asian-American studies, and for being a leader in the Asian-American movement. An adjunct professor at UCLA, he coined the term «Asian-American» in 1968 during the founding of the Asian-American Political Alliance to help unify different Asian ethnic groups and was considered the preeminent scholar of Japanese-American history.

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Phillip Vera Cruz was a Filipino-American union leader, farm worker, and leader of the Asian-American movement. He was a co-founder of the Farmworker Organizing Committee, which later merged with the National Farmworker Association to become the Farmworker Union. As a long-time vice president of the union, he worked to improve working conditions for migrant workers.

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Duckworth’s life story is truly that of a survivor with capital letters. Born in Bangkok in 1968, she is the daughter of an American of British origins and a Thai-Chinese who worked and lived in the capital of Thailand in those years. She grew up between Asia and the United States and that she ended up serving in the military was practically inevitable, since her paternal family did it for several generations, since the American Revolution. His father, Frank, was a combatant in World War II and in Vietnam as a Marine, and on his return home he had to face hostilities from those who were against the Vietnam War, so he decided to settle in the Southeast Asian.

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Yo-yo Ma is a cellist and multi-instrumentalist of Chinese parents, at the age of four he studied violin and viola before learning cello. He began to excel in the world of music from a very young age. He has won numerous awards and distinctions (including several Grammys), has recorded numerous albums and has performed in the largest theaters and operas on the planet. He is considered one of the best cellists in the world.

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Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink was an American lawyer and politician from the American state of Hawaii. Mink was a third generation Japanese American, born and raised on the island of Maui. After graduating as a valedictorian from the Maui High School class in 1944, she attended the University of Hawaii at Mānoa for two years and subsequently enrolled at the University of Nebraska, where she experienced racism and worked to eliminate segregation policies. . After her illness forced her to return to Hawaii to complete her studies there, she applied to enter 12 medical schools to continue her education, but they all turned her down. Following a suggestion from her employer, she opted to study law and was accepted to the University of Chicago Law School in 1948. While she was in college, she met and married a graduate student, John Francis. Mink. When they graduated in 1951, Patsy Mink was unable to find employment as a married Asian woman, and after the birth of her daughter in 1952, the couple moved to Hawaii. When she was denied the right to take the bar exam due to the loss of her territorial residence in Hawaii upon marriage, she challenged Mink’s sexist status. Although she won the right to take the test and passed the exam, she could not find a public or private job because she was married and she had a child. Mink’s father helped her open her own practice in 1953 and around the same time she became a member of the Democratic Party.

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